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Italian bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni has quickly established himself as one of the greatest Mozart singers of our time. At the Metropolitan Opera, he has become an audience favorite through his performances as Leporello, Figaro, and even the monstrous Caliban in The Enchanted Island. This month, Pisaroni returns to the Metropolitan Opera in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, this time as the lascivious Count Almaviva.

Tune in to WKCR 89.9 FM NY on Thursday, March 10th as we dedicate a full day of programming to celebrate the anniversary of Bix Beiderbecke’s birthday.

On Wednesday, March 9th, WKCR 89.9 FM will dedicate a full day of programming to celebrate the birthday of Ornette Coleman, legendary founder of free jazz, who passed away last summer.

Tune in to Live Constructions at 10 pm on Sunday, March 6th for an exclusive in-studio set with Leila Bordreuil, Michael Foster and Weasel Walter. The show will feature a 45-minute free improv set with Leila Bordreuil on cello, Michael Foster on saxophones and Weasel Walter on drums.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music at 3 pm on Tuesday, March 1st for an exclusive interview with Ana-Maria Avram. Born in Bucharest, Romania in 1961, composer Ana-Maria Avram’s propulsive music often synthesizes electroacoustic and instrumental sources. While informed by mathematical techniques, Avram is drawn to the dynamic nature of sound as independently shaped by each performer and listener. “Even if something is written, what is this, there on the score?” she asks. “A base from which to fly away.”

Tune in to Raag Aur Taal at 7 pm today, Sunday February 28th for an interview with Richard Benett (pianist/composer) and Indro Roy-Chowdhury. The interview will feature the artistists discussing their upcoming performance at the Rubin Museum.

RICHARD BENNETT AND INDRO ROY-CHOWDHURY

JAZZ AND RAGA

MARCH 2

7:00 - 8:30 PM at The Rubin Museum

While the historical rape of Lucretia plays a central role in literature and religious theory, few composers have set this sequence to music. These settings take on the form of cantatas almost exclusively, which makes Benjamin Britten's opera an even more curious work. Narrated by a chorus that speaks with a contemporary viewpoint, they recount and attempt to find meaning in a heinous act. Tonight's broadcast features a live 2011 performance from the Aldeburgh Festival.

Tune in to Afternoon New music at 3 pm today, Wednesday February 24th for an exclusive interview with John King and Joan La Barbara. The interview will feature King and La Barbara discussing their collaboration in King's "micro-operas" to be performed at the Avant Festival this Saturday (02/27) at Wild Project on East 3rd Street.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music this Tuesday, February 23rd at 3 pm for an exclusive in-studio interview with Ingrid Laubrock. The 30-minute program will feature Laubrock discussing her new album Ubatuba, as well as her upcoming album release party happening this Saturday, February 27th at the Jazz Gallery.

Be sure to tune into WKCR this Sunday morning to catch Michael Daves on the Moonshine show. Daves, a Grammy nominated guitarist and singer, who has been heralded by the New York Times as “a leading light in the New York bluegrass scene,” will be discussing and playing songs from his new double album Orchids and Violence. The album features two identical track listings of mostly traditional bluegrass songs performed in both a straightforward bluegrass setting and in an experimental rock setting. It is set for release on February 26th on Nonesuch Records.

Kurt Weill is most celebrated for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. In both The Threepenny Opera and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, the pair served audiences with brutal political commentaries on capitalism, all while experimenting with Brecht's legendary alienation theory; however, Weill would soon distance himself from Brecht with his full opera Die Bürgschaft.

Tune in to Afternoon New music at 3 pm today, Wednesday, February 10th for an exclusive interview with David Skidmore of Third Coast Percussion. The interview will feature Skidmore commenting on TCP's latest projects, including their latest album, Third Coast Percussion | Steve Reich, and their performance of Reich's Sextet and the NY premiere of Donnacha Dennehy's Surface Tension at the Metropolitan Museum at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, February 10th.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music at 3 pm on Tuesday, February 9 for an exclusive in-studio interview with William Hooker. The program will contain a 2-hour interview, featuring William Hooker discussing his newest release Light, as well as his upcoming residency at The Stone lasting Feb. 9 - Feb. 14.

On Wednesday, February 10^th, from 6:00 PM until midnight, WKCR will preempt all regular programming in order to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of James Dewitt Yancey, better known as J Dilla or Jay Dee.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music at 3 pm this Monday, February 8 for an exclusive live interview with flautist Anja Brezavšček. Anja Brezavšček will be playing alongside Haize Lizarazu and Kevin Austin in the collective aaaviary on Saturday, February 13th, at 7pm at Muchmore's in Brooklyn: 2 Havemeyer St, New York, 11211.

Tune in to Live Constructions tomorrow evening from 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. to hear a live interview with New York City based drummer, songwriter, and vocalist Jeremy Carlstedt. The interview will feature Carlstedt on the making of his new album, Stars Are Far, his time playing with the late Chico Hamilton’s Euphoria group, his ongoing tour, and more along with select tracks from Stars Are Far.

Kirsten Flagstad is thought by many to be the definitive Wagnerian soprano. In the Norwegian soprano's two decades at the Metropolitan Opera, she only sang two non-Wagnerian roles. One of those was Gluck's Alceste, with which she made her farewell to the Met. Tune in to Saturday Night At The Opera on February 6th to hear her in this role in what would be one of her final opera recordings. In this 1957 radio broadcast from Copenhagen, she sings the title role in her native Norwegian, while the other cast members sing Danish.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music this Wednesday, February 3 at 3 pm for an exclusive in-studio interview with trumpet player Peter Evans. The program will last 2.5 hours, featuring an exclusive interview as well as recordings from the Peter Evans Quintet, its members, and more.

The Peter Evans Quintet will be performing live at Roulette this Friday, February 5 at 8 pm. The quintet will play a partially improvised set of all new music and will feature guest saxophonists Ingrid Laubrock and Aaron Burnett.

Join us at WKCR this Saturday, January 30th as we celebrate the 105th birthday anniversary of one of the foundational figures of the Swing Era, jazz trumpeter Roy “Little Jazz” Eldridge. Known for his signature boldness in rhythm and sound, Eldridge is often accredited for his role in bridging the musical styles and approaches of Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. Born in 1911 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Eldridge spent the early years of his career touring with a number of dance bands.

Please join us and tune in to Afternoon Classical on Thursday, January 28th at 3:00 PM for an exclusive in-studio interview with American violist and WQXR Q2Music radio host, Nadia Sirota. During Thursday's Afternoon Classical program, Sirota will discuss her upcoming residency at Symphony Space with artists including Liam Byrne, yMusic, and Richard Reed Parry.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music at 3 pm on Wednesday, Jan. 27 for an exclusive in-studio interview and live set with Elliott Sharp, Jenny Lin, and John Richards (of JACK Quartet), all about Elliott Sharp's new release The Boreal. The two-hour program will feature interviews with Jenny Lin, John Richards and Elliott Sharp, followed by a WKCR-exclusive solo guitar performance by Elliott Sharp of his piece The Hidden Variable. The entirety of The Boreal will also be played throughout the program.

Tune in to WKCR for the 19^th annual Antonio Carlos Jobim Festival this Monday. With this, we will be continuing the tradition of broadcasting the music of Brazil's most famous composer, Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim on his birthday.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music at 3 pm on Tuesday, January 19th for an exclusive in-studio interview with composer Daniel Wohl. The show will feature a 45-minute interview with Wohl, as well as tracks from his upcoming new album Holographic. The world premiere performances of Holographic will take place at the Baryshnikov Arts Center on Thursday and Friday, January 21 and 22, 2016.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music at 3 pm on Monday, January 18th for an exclusive in-studio set with Weasel Walter and Daniel Carter. The show will feature a 70-minute free improv set with Weasel Walter on drums and Daniel Carter on saxophone, trumpet, clarinet and flute.

Weasel Walter is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser. He founded The Flying Luttenbachers in Chicago in 1991, and has collaborated with Evan Parker, Elliott Sharp, John Butcher, Marshall Allen, Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson, among many others.

Mozart's operas are performed with the frequency of almost no other opera composer, yet nearly all his popular operas today premiered in the last ten years of his life. Tune in to Saturday Night at the Opera on January 16th to hear his fifth opera Mitridate, re di Ponto. Composed when Mozart was just fourteen, Mitridate pits a royal family against each other in a fight for the crown.

Sid Gribetz presents a special five hour radio show celebrating the career of alto saxophonist Ernie Henry this Sunday January 17 from 2- 7 PM on "Jazz Profiles" on WKCR.

Tonight at midnight, WKCR will begin our twenty-four-hour birthday broadcast in honor of Max Roach.

While Pierre Boulez was famous for his incendiary call to blow up the opera house, several of his greatest recordings are, in fact, his live opera recordings at the Bayreuth Festival. In 1976, he collaborated with French director Patrice Chéreau on the Centennial production of Der Ring Des Nibelungen. Chéreau's interpretation of the mythic opera as a biting commentary on capitalism and the Industrial Revolution polarized audiences, yet Boulez's conducting of the Ring Cycle was equally daring.

Following the announcement of Pierre Boulez’s death this morning, WKCR will dedicate all programming to Boulez’s recordings from 3:00 PM on Wednesday, January 6th through 6:00 PM on Thursday, January 7th. It is almost impossible to sum up the contributions Pierre Boulez has made to classical and new music. Over Boulez’s career spanning seven decades, Boulez broke barriers both in his championing of his fellow contemporary composers and in his conducting of the standard repertoire. Join WKCR-FM and WKCR Classical in this tribute to one of the most important musicians of all time.